The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1, sentence 32
‘But, good heavens, it’s nothing but a donkey!’
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavens | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 heavens | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavens | punct |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 heavens | amod |
| 5 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavens | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ’s | nsubj |
| 8 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavens | acl:relcl |
| 9 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 ’s | obj |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 donkey | cc |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 donkey | det |
| 12 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 nothing | conj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 nothing | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavens | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Text: «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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